Sir John Everett Millais - 2 Palace Gate Kensington London W8 5NF

Palace Gate is a street south of

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. It was previously part of Gloucester Road, and was initially developed in the 1860s. 1a Palace Gate and 10 Palace Gate are both

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buildings. The street is home to part of the Embassy of South Korea and the

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n High Commission ("Zambia House") at 2 Palace Gate, former home of the Victorian

Pre-Raphaelite The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James ...

artist Sir

John Everett Millais Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, ( , ; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest ...

(1829–1896), with a

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Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 1860s establishments in England {{London-geo-stub